Jelly Bean was announced at Google I/O just recently, but a posting from Google's Android open source guru, Jean-Baptiste Queru has confirmed that Android 4.1 is hitting the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repository right now. Time for the developers among you to update your clients to get all the official bits.

This release will be tagged as android-4.1.1_r1 in AOSP. While the source is going live now, the full proprietary binaries for Google-blessed devices won't be rolled out until later. Google plans to directly support the Nexus 7, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S, and Xoom through AOSP. Be aware that the addition of the Jelly Bean code to AOSP doesn't mean any OTA updates are on the way. This just means anyone can download the full source to begin work.

The full source code can be downloaded as soon as it's done uploading and replicating (estimated to be about 6PM PDT) at this link, and the manifest is here. The Nexus system images from I/O have been floating around for modding recently, but this will accelerate things greatly. AOSP-based ROMs like Cyanogen and AOKP will be able to start working with the Jelly Bean code. The folks on the CyanogenMod team are already downloading the code, and will begin early work on ROMs shortly. Get ready for the custom ROMs to flow.

Comments

Arent they even finished with ICS yet? How could they already start with JB?

József Király

JB and ICS aren't that different than ICS and GB was. Pulling over the ICS changes to JB will be quick and mostly painless. Except for a few little quirks where the customizers have to manually patch up the sources.

GazaIan

They're not even done with CM7. They said they're looking to do one stable release of CM9 and end it there, and move on to CM10. Any CM9 device will be bumped up to CM10.

Artem, I didn't see much splitting in the manifests O.o okay, collada was removed, a new compiler-rt popped up (and a few more plus packages). Also, I'm already syncing the tree down, it should be finished in this hour, then the first AOSP builds can begin.

Just noting: github.com/android already synced in the changes from the official AOSP tree, so if you find the GoogleSource servers slow, this github repo might be helpful.